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here as I never met with these birds domesticated 
amongst any other people of Africa. When the canoe 
was gone, I got out my pocket compass and a book, 
and went to a neighbouring village to take our bearings. 
As I climbed the hill a strange sensation came over me, 
for I saw a tumble-down hut, some broken colour pots, 
part of the contents of which w T ere still in good pre¬ 
servation, empty pickle bottles, and old oars, proving 
beyond a doubt that I was on the famous Logier Hill, 
so well known from the description of Baines and 
Chapman. Near at hand, too, lay the boat, which had 
been constructed with so much skill and at the expense 
of so much trouble, in the hope of exploring the 
Zambesi in it to its very mouth A' The natives in their 
superstitious fear had not touched these relics of the 
white man. Time alone, which is fatal to all the 
productions of human skill, had brought about their 
What heroic endurance, what steadfast adherence to 
the plan resolved on, and what a melancholy overthrow 
of bold hopes, had this little corner of the world 
witnessed! I trod carefully, that I might not injure 
these venerable memorials. 
After I had made a rough plan of the surrounding 
districts, I returned to my people. The canoe had 
arrived with the provisions, and the wearisome haggling 
inseparable from dealings with the natives was at its 
height. To get the business settled as quickly as 
possible I paid a good price, and got four goats, three 
sheep, twenty gourds, and two bottles of joalla beer. 
I pitched my camp at the foot of Logier Hill, from the 
summit of which the German colours now waved for 
the first time. 
The Zambesi is here one mile wide, and is dotted 
with pretty little islands covered with evergreen trees. 
The banks are hilly and overgrown with bush. On the 
north an extensive view is obtained, with a distant 
* This project was abandoned, owing to the sudden outbreak of deadly 
fever amongst Baines’s men compelling him to retreat to the high lands 
of the desert.—T r. 
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